New Frontier Party

The New Frontier Party (NFP) was a neoconservative political party in Japan that was active from 1994 to 1997. The party succeeded the anti-Jiminto coalition of Morihiro Hosokawa, and the party was ideologically diverse, with its membership ranging from moderate social democrats to liberals and conservatives. This diversity in the party was doomed to failure, leading to the party being divided in 1997; Ichiro Ozawa's faction formed the Liberal Party of Japan, while the other splinters joined the Democratic Party of Japan.